Privacy Policy
Last modified as of January 9, 2018
This Privacy Policy governs our United States diettypingsystems.com and
diettypetest.com websites (collectively our “Websites”) and our Online Products and
explains how we and our Affiliates collect your personal information on our Websites or
through the Online Products, how we protect such information, and the choices you
have concerning the use of such information. Your privacy and the security of your
personally identifiable information are very important to us. We want you to be as
comfortable as possible visiting our Websites and using our Online Products. We are
dedicated to protecting the privacy of those who visit our Websites and use our Online
Products. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. Diet Typing Systems, LLC and our
Affiliates (collectively, “we”, “us”, or “our”) disclose in this Privacy Policy, we will not sell,
share, license, trade, or rent your personally identifiable information to others.
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes to this
Privacy Policy here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we
might use that information, and whether we will disclose that information to anyone.
Please refer back to this Privacy Policy on a regular basis. By using our Website or any
of our products, offerings, features, tools or resources that we provide on our Website
(collectively, our “Online Products”), including our products or offerings for personal
digital assistants or other handheld or mobile devices (collectively, our “Handheld
Products”), you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Please remember that this Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by our
Websites or through our Online Products. We are not responsible for the privacy of any
information you reveal or post in any public forum (e.g., message board, blog, personal
page, etc.) or through the “Public Profile” feature available on our Websites, or for the
privacy practices of websites that are operated or owned by third parties.
WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED ABOUT YOU IS COLLECTED ON OUR
WEBSITE OR THROUGH OUR ONLINE PRODUCTS?
We collect personally identifiable information.
Personally Identifiable Information.
Personally identifiable information is information that identifies you or can be used to
identify or contact you (“Personally Identifiable Information”). Such Personally
Identifiable Information may include your name, address, email address, telephone
number, birth date, and billing and payment information. We may request Personally
Identifiable Information from you when you register on our Website, subscribe to our
Online Products, or in connection with other Online Products we may make available on
our Website from time to time. In all of these cases, we will collect Personally
Identifiable Information from you only if you voluntarily submit such information to us.
Unless you give us permission to do so, we will not sell, share, license, trade or rent
your Personally Identifiable Information other than as specified in this Privacy Policy.
You do not have to provide us with any Personally Identifiable Information to visit our
Websites. However, if you choose to withhold requested information, you may not be
able to visit all sections of our Websites or use all of our Online Products, such as
advancing to the Diet Type Questionnaire or posting content to any Community Area on
our Websites. A “Community Area” means any blog, personal page, group page, chat
room, message board, bulletin board, or similar activity. In addition, we may not be able
to provide you with some of the other Online Products dependent upon the collection of
such information, such as a Registered User Dashboard.
When you become a Registered User of our Websites, subscribe to one of our current
Online Products, or in connection with other Online Products we may make available on
our Websites from time to time, we also may collect information that by itself cannot be
used to identify or contact you.
Information from Other Sources.
We may also supplement the information we collect with information from other sources
to assist us in evaluating and improving our Website and Online Products, to determine
your preferences so that we can tailor our Websites and Online Products to your needs,
and/or to study nutritional, weight-loss, behavioral and fitness questions in general.
WHERE AND WHEN IS INFORMATION COLLECTED ON OUR WEBSITE OR
THROUGH OUR ONLINE PRODUCTS (INCLUDING THROUGH THE USE OF
COOKIES AND ACTION TAGS)?
We may collect information (including information that is Personally Identifiable
Information) from you in different manners and at different places and times on our
Websites, such as when you register for our Websites or subscribe to one of our Online
Products. We also may collect information from you in connection with, or through, other
Online Products we may make available on our Websites from time to time. The
following is a description of the areas and/or manners in which we primarily collect
information about you.
Becoming a Registered User.
In order to access certain Online Products on our Websites, such as our Diet Type Test,
you must first complete certain steps to purchase a passcode and become a Registered
User. During these steps, you may be required to provide us with information (including
Personally Identifiable Information) such as name, zip code, email address, date of birth
and, if you purchase access to one of our Online Products, payment and billing
information.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.
Diet Typing Systems, LLC does not use cookies or other tracking technologies on our
websites. However, our marketing partners, Affiliates, or analytics or service providers
may use cookies and similar technologies in analyzing trends, administering their
site(s), tracking Users’ movements around their site(s) and to gather demographic
information about the User base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use
of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.
We partner with third parties to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third-party
partners may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your
activities that lead you to this Website and other sites in order to provide you advertising
based upon your browsing activities and interests. If you wish to not have this
information used for the purpose of serving you interest-based ads, you will have to
view the party’s cookie and tracking policy to turn them off. Please note this does not
opt you out of being served ads. You will continue to receive generic ads.
Social Media (Features) and Widgets
Our Website includes social media features, buttons and widgets provided by third party
social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter (collectively, the “Features”). A
Feature may collect your IP address and which page you are visiting on our Website
and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. This cookie may allow
the social media platform to link the foregoing data with your user profile. The Features
are either hosted by the third-party platform or directly on our Website. Your interactions
with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the relevant platform.
Testimonials
We may display personal testimonials of satisfied customers on our site in addition to
other endorsements. With your consent we may post your testimonial along with your
name. If you wish to delete your testimonial from our Website, you can contact us at
privacy@diettypingsystems.com
Referral Programs
Through third-party referral program operators and others, we offer referral programs
whereby referral websites can earn commissions through the referral of subscribers or
other purchasers to our Website. To track the earning of such commissions, and to
determine the effectiveness of the referral programs, the Users who become
subscribers to our Online Products or purchasers through such referral websites are
tracked using technologies that do not include Personally Identifiable Information (such
as cookies and/or action tags). Our program operators and the referral websites
themselves can only access information such as data relating to the number of
impressions served, the number of transactions completed, and their resulting earnings.
They cannot access our customers’ personal data.
If you choose to apply to be a referral website, we use the data you provide strictly for
conducting business with you. We have entered into certain agreements with third party
program operators for the purpose of administering our referral programs. Should you
become a referral website of ours through one of our third-party program operators, any
information you provide to them is subject to their privacy policies.
Online Products
We collect information, some of which may be Personally Identifiable Information, that
you voluntarily provide to us when you choose to use some of our Online Products
(available either for free or on a paid or subscription basis). We also collect information
that you provide voluntarily through responses to special Online Products such as
surveys, questionnaires, self-assessment quizzes, and the like. Some of these Online
Products may ask you for health-related information. We collect this information in order
to personalize your online experience.
Handheld Products
Information is also collected when you use our Handheld Products, including the
software application needed to utilize the Handheld Products on your handheld device
(the “Application”). During the installation of the Application and subsequent
synchronizations, we collect information concerning your device (such as the specific
type of operating system and hardware you have, and the amount of free and total
memory) and the Application’s files on your device.
Our Handheld Products also collect information about your usage of the Application
(such as the dates you last synced with the Internet or the dates you last used certain
features). When you sync your device with the Website, we store some of this
information.
Public Forums and the Public Profile Feature
We feature public forums such as those contained in the Community Areas where you
and other Users of our Website can communicate with one another.
THIS PRIVACY POLICY DOES NOT PROTECT YOU WHEN YOU USE OUR PUBLIC
FORUMS OR PROVIDE INFORMATION (INCLUDING PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE
INFORMATION) ABOUT YOURSELF THROUGH THE PUBLIC PROFILE FEATURE
OR THROUGH ANY COMMUNITY AREA AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE.
You should be aware that any information shared in a public forum such as a message
board, blog, personal page, posting, group, bulletin board or through our Public Profile
feature is public information and may be seen or collected by third parties that do not
adhere to our Privacy Policy, although the availability of personal pages or groups
identified as “private” may be limited to certain permitted Users. However, even
information marked “private” may be viewed by our staff. You should think carefully
before disclosing any information in any public forum, or through the Public Profile
feature, on our Website. For example, you should not select a username that includes
personally identifiable information. To request removal of your
personally identifiable information from our Community Areas, contact our Privacy
Coordinator at the address indicated below.
Log Files
As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically. This
information may include Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser types, domain
names, and other anonymous statistical data involving the use of our Website. This
information may be used to analyze trends, to administer the Website, to monitor our
Website’s use, and to gather general demographic information. We may link this
information to Personally Identifiable Information for these and other purposes such as
personalizing your experience on our Website and evaluating our Online Products in
general.
Email or Refer a Friend
Through our referral tools for informing a friend about our Website, or one of our Online
Products, we will automatically send your friend a one-time email containing the
information you request to be sent. If you elect to use these referral tools, we will collect
from you certain Personally Identifiable Information about your friend such as your
friend’s name and email address. We may store that information for purposes of
sending the one-time email and as necessary to operate and track the success of our
referral program. We will not use your friend’s information for any other purpose. Your
friend may contact us at privacy@diettypingsystems.com to request that we remove this
information from our database.
DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE?
We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. Our Website and Online
Products are not designed for or directed to children under the age of 13. We do not
collect Personally Identifiable Information from any person we actually know is under
the age of 13. We urge all parents or guardians to participate in their children’s
exploration of the Internet, and to teach their children about protecting their
personally identifiable information while online.
WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT?
In general, we use the information collected on our Website and through our Online
Products to help us understand who uses our Website and Online Products and how
they are used, to personalize your experience, to assist you in using our Online
Products, to improve our Website and Online Products, and for billing purposes, if
applicable. With respect to our Handheld Products, for example, we may use such
information, among other things, to ensure that your handheld device is supported and
that it has enough room for the Application, and to confirm which versions of the
Application’s files are installed on your device. If you become a registered User of our
Website or subscribe to one of our Online Products, we may use your information to
send you a welcoming email that may confirm your username. If you “opt-in” (for
example, if you check a box, or if the box is pre-checked, you do not opt out by
unchecking the box) we may send you electronic newsletters, contact you about Diet
Typing Systems, LLC products, services, information and news that may be of interest
to you, and provide you with targeted feedback. If you no longer desire to receive these
communications, we will provide you with an option to change your preferences. In
addition, if you identify yourself to us by sending us an email with questions or
comments, we may use your information (including Personally Identifiable Information)
to respond to your questions or comments, and we may file your questions or
comments for future reference. We may also use the information collected to contact
you about important service announcements and updates regarding our Website or
Online Products or, if you are a subscriber, about your billing account status. You will
not be able to opt-out of these service announcements and updates as they contain
important information relevant to your use of our Website and/or our Online Products
and are not promotional in nature. (If you do not wish to receive these service
announcements, you may cancel your account with us and delete the Personally
Identifiable Information maintained about you on our systems by contacting our Privacy
Coordinator at the address set out below.)
In addition, we may use your information to contact you about Diet Typing System, LLC
products, services, information and news that may be of interest to you by postal mail,
unless you notify us that you no longer desire to receive these communications.
We may also use the information gathered on our Website and through our Online
Products to perform statistical analysis of User behavior, to analyze and evaluate issues
relating to nutrition, weight-loss, behavior, and fitness, or to evaluate and improve our
Online Products. We may link some of this information to Personally Identifiable
Information for internal purposes only or to assist you in your personal efforts.
WHEN DO WE DISCLOSE INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES?
Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed to by you, we will not
disclose any information we gather from you on our Website.
Affiliates.
We may disclose information (including Personally Identifiable Information) about you to
our Affiliates. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Affiliate” means any person or entity
which directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by or is under common control with Diet
Typing Systems, LLC, whether by ownership or otherwise. Any information relating to
you that we provide to our Affiliates will be treated by those Affiliates in accordance with
the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Laws and Legal Rights.
We may also disclose your information (including Personally Identifiable Information) if
we believe in good faith that we are required to do so in order to comply with an
applicable statute, regulation, rule or law, a subpoena, a search warrant, a court or
regulatory order, or other valid legal process. We may disclose Personally Identifiable
Information in special circumstances when we have reason to believe that disclosing
this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone
who may be violating our Terms & Conditions, or to protect the safety and/or security of
our Users, our Website or the general public.
Third Parties Generally.
We may provide to third parties information about you that does not allow you to be
identified or contacted, including where such information is combined with similar
information of other users of our Website. For example, we might inform third parties
regarding the number of unique Users who visit our Website, the demographic
breakdown of the Registered Users of our Website, or the activities that visitors to our
Website engage in while on our Website. The third parties to which we may provide this
information may include potential or actual advertisers, providers of advertising services
(including website tracking services), commercial partners, sponsors, licensees,
researchers and other similar parties.
Outside Contractors.
We may employ independent contractors, vendors and suppliers (collectively, “Outside
Contractors”) to provide specific services and products related to our Website or Online
Products, such as providing payment processing and fraud screening, and developing
applications for our Website and e-mail services. These Outside Contractors may
sometimes have limited access to information collected on our Website, including your
Personally Identifiable Information, in the course of providing products or services to us.
Access to your Personally Identifiable Information by these contractors is limited to the
information reasonably necessary in order for the Outside Contractors to perform their
limited function for us. We also require that these Outside Contractors (i) protect the
privacy of your Personally Identifiable Information consistent with this Privacy Policy,
and (ii) not use or disclose your Personally Identifiable Information for any purpose
other than providing us with products or services for which we contracted.
Third Party Sellers.
In addition, through our Website, you may be given the opportunity to purchase (or to
obtain more information regarding) certain content, products or services which are sold
through a person or company other than us or our Affiliates (collectively, “Third Party
Sellers”).
We will attempt to make it clear to you when you are dealing with a ThirdParty Seller
by opening a new browser or otherwise notifying you that you are leaving
our Website. For example, if you see a phrase such as “powered by” or “brought to you
by” followed by the name of a person or company other than Diet Typing System, LLC,
then you are likely on, or about to enter, a website hosted or operated by a person or
company other than us. Third Party Sellers may request that you submit certain
information to them in order to purchase their products or services or to obtain
additional information from them. You do not need to submit this information or
purchase any products or services from Third Party Sellers to access our Website. By
submitting the requested information, you affirmatively consent to have that information
shared with the Third-Party Seller. This information is used by the Third-Party Seller and
may be subject to a different privacy policy. We do not otherwise share or disclose your
Personally Identifiable Information to Third-Party Sellers.
Sale of Business.
We reserve the right to transfer information to a third party in the event of a sale, merger
or other transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of Diet Typing Systems, LLC, or
in the case of bankruptcy, provided that the third-party agrees to adhere to the terms of
this Privacy Policy. We will notify Users of any such transfer through notice on our site
and through email.
DOES THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLY WHEN YOU LINK TO OTHER WEBSITES?
Our Website contains links to other websites not owned or operated by Diet Typing
Systems, LLC. We will attempt to make it obvious to you when you leave our Website
and enter these websites by opening a new browser or otherwise notifying you that you
are leaving our Website. However, please be aware that we are not responsible for the
privacy practices of such websites. We encourage you to be aware when our Website
links to other websites and to read the privacy policies or statements of each and every
website. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by our Website or
through our Online Products.
IS THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT SECURE?
We want your information (including Personally Identifiable Information) to remain as
secure as possible. We strive to provide secure transmission of your information from
your computer to our servers through industry-standard techniques. To help ensure the
integrity and privacy of the Personally Identifiable Information you provide to us via the
Internet at the time you elect to become a Registered User or subscribe to our Online
Products, we use Secured Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology in transmitting
such Personally Identifiable Information over the Internet to our servers. We secure the
Personally Identifiable Information you provide on servers located in controlled, secure
environments, protected from unauthorized access, use, or alteration. Only employees
who need access to your information to perform a specific task or function are granted
access to such information. In addition, all of our employees must abide by this Privacy
Policy and are kept up-to-date on security practices. Any employee who violates this
Privacy Policy is subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination.
Notwithstanding the above commitments to protect your information (including
Personally Identifiable Information) from loss, misuse or alteration by third parties, you
should be aware that there is always some risk involved in transmitting information over
the Internet. There is also some risk that others could find a way to thwart our security
systems. As a result, while we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure or
warrant the security and privacy of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at
your own risk.
WHAT CHOICES DO YOU HAVE REGARDING THE COLLECTION DISCLOSURE
AND DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION?
Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, we will only use Personally
Identifiable Information for the purposes described above or as otherwise disclosed at
the time we request such information from you. You must “opt-in” and give us
permission to use your Personally Identifiable Information for any other purpose. If you
no longer wish to receive communications from us via postal mail, you may notify us by
calling Mark Anthony at 347-903-7030, or by contacting our Privacy Coordinator at the
address set out below.
You may change your preference and “opt-out” of receiving other communications by
changing that option in the Communication Preferences feature of our Website,
following the directions provided in association with the communication, or by contacting
our Privacy Coordinator at the address set out below.
Users of our Website are notified when Personally Identifiable Information is being
collected by third parties on our Website. We do this so you can make an informed
choice as to whether you should disclose information to a third-party.
Some web browsers incorporate a “Do Not Track” feature that signals to websites that
you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. We interpret and
respond to “Do Not Track” signals. However, you may also set your Web browser to not
accept new cookies or web beacons, be notified when you receive a new cookie, or
reject cookies generally. Most browsers offer instructions on how to do so in the “Help”
section of the toolbar. Please note that if you do not accept cookies, you may not be
able to use certain products, offerings, features, or resources of our Website (including
our Online Products).
CAN YOU UPDATE OR CORRECT YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE
INFORMATION?
Upon request, Diet Typing Systems, LLC will provide you with information about
whether we hold any of your personal information. You can always contact us in order
to (1) update or correct your Personally Identifiable Information, (2) change your
preferences with respect to communications and other information you receive from us,
or (3) delete the Personally Identifiable Information maintained about you on our
systems, by accessing Account Settings or contacting our Privacy Coordinator at the
address set out below. Such updates, corrections, changes and deletions will not have
an effect on other information that we maintain, or information that we have provided to
third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy prior to such update, correction,
change or deletion.
You should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every
record of the information you have provided to us from our systems. The need to backup
our systems to protect information from inadvertent loss means that a copy of your
Personally Identifiable Information may exist in a non-erasable form that will be difficult
or impossible for us to locate. We promise that promptly after receiving your request, all
Personally Identifiable Information stored in databases we actively use and other readily
searchable media will be updated, corrected, changed or deleted, as appropriate. We
will respond to your request within 30 days.
We retain your information for various purposes as allowed by law, including to ensure
that we can continue to provide our services to you as requested, that we respect your
opt-out wishes into the future, and that we can comply with our legal obligations. If you
wish to remove your Personally Identifiable Information from our database entirely (even
though this may impact our ability to provide services to you and/or manage your opt out
wishes), please contact us as specified below.
HOW WILL YOU KNOW IF THERE ARE ANY CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY
POLICY?
If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on our Website
so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what
circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use Personally
Identifiable Information in a manner significantly different from that stated in this Privacy
Policy, or otherwise disclosed to you, at the time it was collected, we will notify you by
email or otherwise, and you will have a choice as to whether or not we use your
Personally Identifiable Information in the new manner. We may also make nonsignificant
changes to our Privacy Policy that generally will not affect our use of your
Personally Identifiable Information. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy
Policy, you should not use our Website.
WHOM DO YOU CONTACT IF YOU HAVE ANY PRIVACY QUESTIONS?
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or feel that we are not abiding by the
terms of our posted Privacy Policy, please contact our Privacy Coordinator in any of the
following ways:
Email our Privacy Coordinator at:
Or, write to our Privacy Coordinator at:
Diet Typing Systems, LLC
Attn: Privacy Coordinator
1004 Beverley Road
Brooklyn, NY 11218